Farrakhan: ‘America at a crossroads’
More than 100 venues to host Saviours' Day anti-war messageAnticipation is high as the world prepares to receive the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, live-via-satellite, during a Feb. 23 broadcast from Chicago’s UIC Pavilion. With hundreds of thousands around the globe poised to hear his message, "America at the Crossroads: War is not the Answer"–which culminates the Nation of...
Black clergy to America: War is not the answer, solve problems at home
FCN Editorial: Let the church say 'amen' TavisTalks.com (Tavis Smiley) DETROIT (FinalCall.com)–Prominent Black clergy from across the country convened to address "The State of the Black Union" told a national audience Feb. 8, in voices loud and strong, that President Bush is wrong and "war is not the answer." "This war is unjust," said Dr. James H. Cone, the Charles...
Conyers proposes health care solution to Congress
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)–Flanked by a number of the nation’s most prominent physicians and progressive leaders of Congress, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the dean of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), introduced a new bill Feb. 4 that he argued would provide an effective way to control skyrocketing U.S. health costs while extending coverage to all 42 million Americans now without...
West Coast works for Saviours’ Day success
CHARLENEM (FinalCall.com) - From Seattle to sunny Southern California, various mosques and study groups of the Nation of Islam’s Western Region are gearing up for what is anticipated to be the largest and best ever of its annual Saviours’ Day Celebrations. The "crowning event of Black History Month," L.A. participants will also include the upcoming 100,000 Man March for Peace,...
Sharpton: ‘We’ve forgotten how we got over’
FCNNEWSSOURCE Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network St. Sabina Catholic Church CHICAGO (FinalCall.com)–Democratic presidential candidate the Rev. Al Sharpton rode into town on controversy Feb. 9, and the debate continued long after he left. Invited to speak at St. Sabina Catholic Church by Father Michael Pfleger, Rev. Sharpton’s appearance was denounced by Francis Cardinal George. The head of the Chicago archdiocese...
Philadelphia’s dirty secret to be told
City to acknowledge slave quarters of George WashingtonPHILADELPHIA (FinalCall.com)–The names are shrouded by a history that was never told–Moll, Austin, Hercules, Richmond, Giles, Paris, Christopher Sheels and Oney Judge. All labored without pay as slave servants to the first family of this nation, in George and Martha Washington’s Philadelphia household. In all probability their unique story would never have...
Mandela blasts Bush’s plan for Iraq War
South Africa rallying UN members to oppose warAfrican National Congress scorns new "evidence" against Iraq WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)–The economy is getting weaker. Consumer confidence is down. Unemployment is up. Federal budget deficits are rising to record levels. Tens of millions of Americans have no health insurance and that number is growing. Soaring costs for prescription medicines and for fuel...
Activists sound alarm as FBI counts U.S. mosques
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)–FBI Director Robert Mueller has instructed field agents to begin counting local mosques to determine goals for counterterrorism investigations and secret wiretaps. The policy, revealed last month in a published report, has come under fire from congressmen and national civil rights and advocacy groups. They are asking the Department of Justice to rescind the policy, which calls for...
Activists: Fast track is right track in Zimbabwe land redistribution plan
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com)–Any African leader who fights to distribute the wealth of the land to his people is considered a bad African leader by Western government, Zimbabwe’s UN Ambassador Bonaface Chidyausiku told a packed room of listeners at a Feb. 1 forum on "Land, Reparations and Pan-Africanism". But if that leader doesn’t touch the land distribution or wealth question, then...
Mid-Atlantic, Southern regions prepared for Saviours’ Day
Saviours' Day 2003 Satellite Venues and Information WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)–Forty-two cities throughout the mid-Atlantic region of the United States and over a dozen more in the southern region excitedly report brisk ticket sales as they prepare to welcome live, via satellite, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s Feb. 23 Saviours’ Day address. The Nation of Islam will host full-scale Saviours’ Day weekend...